A shame Enterprise didn't get a 5th season. They were finally getting it on track with 3 and 4.

It was Alex Kurtzman trying to screw with the timeline again.

it's a shame Enterprise didn't reach 4 more seasons!

I actually enjoyed this show, it had that nostalgic 90's feel but it ages well. Some episodes are so fun and not corny like the older shows.

It isn' like Scott Bakula hasn't had some experience with these kinds of shenanigans.

I remember dialog in the first episode that future guy and his people didn't want to involve the Klingons,... or the Humans, so it doesn't make sense that it was originally intended to be Archer.

I get the feeling Braga said Archer just to stop people asking all the time.

If Future guy IS Archer, then one has to ask a second, profoundly interesting question: Did he succeed? We don't know if he ever actually intended for the Sulibans to succeed in their missions? Perhaps he was purposfully setting them up to fail in order for his past self to suceed in his missions? Let's assume "alternate Archer" knows about Daniels. Perhaps he even had similar missions with Daniels aswell. He might even had gotten enough knowledge about Daniels temporal agency as to manipulate events so that he knew Daniels would recruit his past self and thus having the events unfold as we see in the show. Hell, it might even have ended up being a time loop. Archer realises that he has to become Future guy in order to insure that his past self shows up to stop the Sulibans, leeding to the end of the temporal cold war AND eventually the founding of the federation.

Future Guy is Michael Burnham. Everything is Michael Burnham. The whole universe revolves around Michael Burnham. I kid...but not by much. Discovery season 3 will take place in the 31st century. So.....there's that.

I always thought that the future guy was Braxton from Voyager. He’s a 29th century federation captain that goes rogue, and in the novels Picard and Kirk have to stop him from messing up the Kitamar accords.

This series ended too soon. Only 4 seasons, and it was a really great show! Maybe if it went to 7 seasons, the mystery of the future man would've been revealed.

Admiral Archer turns off the view screen falling back in his chair. “I told them not to name it Enterprise. It makes it sound like some sort of lucrative venture. That’s not who we are anymore.” It is revealed that a theatrical documentary was made of his time on the NX01. “That’s not really how ... doesn’t this cheapen what we’ve accomplished?” Archers query goes unanswered. “The man doesn’t look anything like me!”

While watching Enterprise during it's run, I always felt Future Guy was Archer and that ultimately, what he accomplished would be the Prime timeline from TOS without some of the inconsistencies that Enterprise introduced.

Star Trek Online has a great story on the topic.

It was Jar Jar Abrams messing with the Star Trek timeline.

I recognized the actor playing the mystery guy from his voice, he played a couple other roles in other Trek series before but I assumed he was a Romulan in the future because of the shape of his uniform. Those shoulder pads were very Romulan.

It was Dr. Sam Beckett ... or Al

I was never crazy about the temporal cold war story arc.

The creators had no idea who Future Guy was. Heck they didn't even come up with his name, Future Guy is attributed (possibly falsely) to the reviewer SF Debris and the creators just started using it. According to MA he could have been a Romulan or Future Archer or anything, the creators had ideas but nothing concrete. Kinda like all of Enterprise.

The Agents of Yesterday expansion from the game Star Trek Online in 2016 also explores who Future Guy was. In their canon he turned out to be a rogue former member of the Krenim Imperium names Noye.

I HEARD HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUTURE ARCHER...

As a Quantum Leap fan, it still feels wrong seeing Sam Beckett dealing with Bad Al. Maybe future guy was Ziggy in humanoid form.

I recognize the voice of Future Guy. It is the same actor that played the Vulcan that was holding back Starfleet.

I thought that it was a Section 31 agnt pushing tmporal buttons to make the Federation there in the 31st Century react to ensure that the Federation would indeed exist, creating the Temporal Cold War was just the means to unveil the malevolent factions that wanted to use it against the Federation in the first place. At least that's how I was seeing that when I thought about it.

I thought it was Romulan which tried save his planet from destruction. Also he manipulated time so Romulane Empire became one force which rules the galaxy.

Future guy was supposed to be a future version of Archer from a timeline where everything fell apart and the Federation never existed. It was intended to be a dark reflection of Scott Bakula's character from Quantum Leap.

Funny... I kinda had suspicion that the 'Future guy' was a future version of Archer (maybe from alternative universe).

Well I don't know who the future benefactor was supposed to have been, but the voice was that of Peter Weller IMO (aka 1987 Robocop actor, and also played a Martian Colonist mine owner on one of the last episodes of Enterprise I believe). It wasn't Scott Bakula's voice that's for sure!

At the time, I thought it must be a character we already knew because his identity was obscured.

The answer is Michael Burnham. The answer is always Michael Burnham.

I do kind of like the idea of the humanoid benefactor being Johnathan Archer since we see Archer impersonating him in one of the episodes.

Wish I could remember how cannon Star Trek Online is, because they reveal who Future Guy is in there.

So that fan edit of Sam leaping out of Archer at the end of Enterprise wouldn't have been far off...

It was one of the Star Trek Discovery writers trying to change the timeline to make the show fit into canon

So while Star Trek online isn't hard Canon it is licensed and CBS has gone through some length to ensure, especially with new discovery content that there is acceptable degrees of consistency with the current and past story arcs, with the new expansion going so far as to be a side story of the ongoing series. That being said, STO is somewhere above the extended universe and somewhere below the serieses in terms of story expansion and canonicity. While the books and literature scatter amidst various authors and versions of events, STO unifies a lot of the serieses loose ends into something meaningful in very surprising and satisfying ways. Future man per this storyline is actually A Krenim (Year of hell). As the captain in online during the war with the Iconians, the alliance (federation, Klingons, New Romulan republic) realize the only way they will defeat the Iconians is using temporal technology, as the Iconians by nature are weak to chroniton fields and temporal energy and by this nature incapable of time travel. Having previously ventured into the Delta quadrant to make new alliances and fight the Vaaduar, the alliance turns to the Krenim who for some time had been experimenting with time travel. During a test you unwittingly banish an entire species from The timeline. While everyone is knows unaware of this, the lead Krenim researcher somehow figures out through temporally shielded data that his wife is gone. His wife is a member of the banished species who become the sphere builders. Now banished to another realm they sell vengeance across time with the federation, as does the Krenim scientist. Basically you as the player started the whole damn thing. I recommend a playthrough of the Delta, Iconians, and New Frontier storylines.

I figured this when Silik couldn't reach his contact after Archer was stranded in the past.

Star Trek Online has the best storylines forward of ST Voyager. He's a Krenim trying to bring back his wife's race in the war against the Iconians. His wife's race turned into the sphere builders.

I always thought the future guy was going to end up being an earlier or later timeline Admiral Forrest - I was absolutely convinced - until he died in the bombing of the Earth Embassy on Vulcan. I was disappointed that my deductions turned out to be all wrong!

I dont think it was archer, unless he's future self somehow went way into the future. The tech the future guy has and uses is far past archers lifetime. It has to be someone closer to Daniel's time. At least that's what I think.

Other than the Guardian of Forever, Gary7&Roberta Lincoln should still be active making sure that the timeline is mostly preserved. They work for the Aegis and should had taken steps to make sure that changes to the timeline is reduced.

Thought it was a future version of Daniels. Pretty sure that's how it plays out in STO.

It’s Michael Burnham. The entirety of the known universe is now about Michael Burnham and Sonequa doing her best sad face.

There was an interview, I forget when I saw it but the producers said that if the series moved forward into a future season. They would have revealed it was a future version of Archer that was Future Guy.

Future Guy was J. J. Abrams who sought to drastically change Star Trek canon.

Didn't Star Trek Online reveal his identity as a Krenim who lost his wife and faction in the Iconian war?

In Star Trek Online, he's Noye or Envoy, a Krenim Scientist.

So it would've been Archer? I would've preferred some malevolent alien.

Love the channel

Archer being the ‘future guy’ is too silly.

I thought it sounded like peter weller allot

The future guy was Picard. ;)

thats basically braga looking at half a decades worth of fan theories, chosing his favourite one and then saying "yeah, thats what we planned all along". yeah right :)

Great video! I enjoyed the Star Trek Online Temporal Cold War with the Krenim scientist Noye filling a similarly shady role as Envoy. But I'd always wondered just who the guy was Enterprise.

He was michael burnham from the future

Thank you!!! What a strange coincidence, just yesterday I finished reading the Rise of the Federation novels and I was wondering what happened to Future Guy cause I read somewhere that they revealed his identity in the novels but now I know it's in a DTI novel not in an Enterprise relaunch novel... I'll have to read that one too.

Fun Fact: Berman & Braga admitted that they had no idea who Future Guy was and that the Temporal Cold War was made up as they went along. So I see no point or fun in fan speculation when the show runners were as clueless as we were.

In the Star Trek Online Time Line. "Future Guy" turns out to be Daniels. I take that as a better plot than this theory.

Thanks capt Jack xx

It's the guy with the cat from the original series...

I like your idea of captain Archer being the future guy. The voice sounded like him

The story of the Future Guy is from what origin? I've read the ENT Novels til "Rise of the Federation - 3" and there is no one like him. Also in the novels of TNG, DS9 or Typhon Pact, Destiny or Titan...

We have at least 4 half known fractions involved in the temporal cold war and you can trust none of them. If I was a timetraveler I would tell you everything to reach my goal.

If only we had a Future guy come warn us about Discovery, maybe Enterprise would of gotten more appreciation and more seasons.

I can't think of a logical reason Archer would be the future guy, that's just dumb.

The Future Guy is the offspring of Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler. And I really like Enterprise which should have got another season or two.

I think it's Riker, or his transporter double. Riker played the role of chef in his holodeck program.

Haven't watched the video yet but I always thought he seemed Vulcan/Romulan-y.

My personal headcanon was that he was a Romulan, and this is before the whole JJ Trek stuff with the stellar explosion so he’d be doing it to make the empire greater and in part to mitigate the other temporal factions actions.

1. Archer would not help to kill 3000 people on Paragaan colony. It doesn't make sense that he wants to threaten himself. Sulibans nearly killed Archer. 2. Noye from Star Trek Online cooperates with the Sphere builders. It's different fraction in the time war than Future Guy, who warned Archer of Xindi. 3. Unknown Romulan is the most likely option, causing a civil war in Klingons and not establishing a Federation would help them, on the other hand, who would fight the Dominion and the Borg do not know. How it saves planet Romulus I also don't know. 4. Shame of Berman and Braga, that they wrote a story without at least trying to explain who the main bad guy is and what his motives are.

He was the alien bounty hunter from the X-Files

Archer?? NO. That's an odd nod to Quantum Leap.

A eugenicist using time-travel to manipulate the past in order to create a master race is a brilliant sci-fi idea! You could even use that as the excuse for why most sentient species are humanoid, though I suspect that wouldn’t work in Trek what with the ancient aliens in The Chase.

It would have neen good if it was the Romulan "Tomalek' from TNG. A great link to an obsessive enemy

Its James Horan, Who was Dr Jobril in a TNG episode, his character was supposed to be explained in the fifth season but they never got to it

Gary Seven my dudes 😎👌🏻

Considering Archer was a host of a Vulcan Katra - was shown on screen to able to "easily" beat up Vulcanoids - I tend to think that he is on a path (fulfilled or not) to be a rather singular being potentially. A little bit Klingon and a little Bit Human Augment, very long lived for his time, and with that mental influence of Vulcan's greatest Son on him. It does suggest he was potentially some sort of Mackenvie Calhoun level super hero. If that went a bit pair shaped and add in some Suliban and Romulan influence you'd have something not that far away from the Beta-Canon future guy. But if you want to have some fun you can say that the bad Future Archer wanted to correct is much the same one Burnham's Momma was so paranoid about.

Thanks to KZfaq l have been able to watch the series four times and has become my second favorite with the top nod going to the original.

About the Future Guy, if he was against the Federation and United Earth, then a good story idea would've been that he was trying to have Humanity become an imperialist power that embraced genetic engineering and that he tried to aid Paxton and the Terra Prime movement somehow in taking over Humanity.

I would take the creator's version over any fan proposal any day of the week. If there were a fifth season Brannon Braga said it would turn out to be Archer himself. That should end any speculation at all, the shows creator has spoken.

When Archer came through the future guy's time portal that did it for me. Only way it would be possible

It's pretty much redundant as it's all just a holo-recording being watched by Riker and Troy 🖖🏻

CLEARLY future guy was future Ted Mosby who only wanted to tell the enterprise crew how he met their mother, the next captain

Do we know who provided the voice? It always sounded like Soval (Gary Graham) to me.

Ok I’m going to REVEAL to everyone WHO the future character REALLY IS !!! I’ve been wondering myself as a Trek fan myself. I dug deep and a lot of research and I finally tracked down from the writers and the Producer himself Brannon Braga WHO the future guy Really was. Now he stated HAD there been a season 5 future guy would have been revealed to everyone who he really was but since it was canceled it was never released on film. Now this is a quote from the Star Trek Producer himself Brannon Braga “ For those wondering , Archer as the future guy was ALWAYS the idea. Trying to repair a corrupt future by influencing his innocent past self. Archer was trying to correct history, he was pure in his own mind. There was talk of a Romulan Red Herring, but that was never the case. IT WAS ALWAYS ARCHER.... “ I found this on Enterprise Producer Brannon Braga’s Twitter account posted by him. I’m glad to help answer this mystery and I hope this helps everyone out. I for one hated to see this series end because I really enjoyed it and saw it for what it was which is how everything began ... “ live long and prosper 🖖 everyone “ it’s a small world and big universe ...

It's actually Brannon Braga going back in time to fuck up everything good about Star Trek.

If archer was future guy it would negate everything Daniels was doing. Future guy had to be and even Daniels said he was advanced but nit as advanced as from his century. Making it archer would be an addition to a long line of Brannon braga bad ideas. I hated the Cindy story line. If they just stuck to early travels to new worlds getting their feet wet. Plus the time travel stuff was another bad idea.

If extended you me made up,Brannon Braga has said in many interviews after the show went off the air future guy was supposed to be a future Archer, it's all over the internet and reddit.

i liked how star trek online wrapped up some of the series wide time travel episodes..like the one with the ship the suliban and tholians wanted..

Future Guy was Archer, simply trying to change the outcome of the last episode.

I'm disappointed that the version from Star Trek Online wasn't mentioned. "Extended Canon" is certainly vast, but it would have been appreciated if it was acknowledged. Also, the team was actually in contact with staff from PICARD, so some of those elements could become actual canon

I agree. Romulans are always zenophopic & play the long game. E.g. spock & the reunification play they tried.

First thought on my own is, without the United Federation of Planets, he wouldnt exist... and i feel hes connected to Romulan star empire well with what happend before the end of 24th century. An the romulan republic.

Star Trek Online had a pretty cool origin for him as well

I heard so many theories about who Future Guy was going to be. At one point, I heard it was going to be James T. Kirk, and that William Shatner was going to play the role.

I like to think that The Benefactor is a future Lore. He's an android that can live for hundreds of years. Anybody could have reactivated him for any reason at any point in the future. He'd just take advantage of the future time-travel technology for his own selfish agenda, as he always had.

His name was Braga Berman. He was the Harbinger of the Banal.

If the time war was being fought between people in different time periods, wouldn't the first ones automatically win since they wouldn't need to use time travel to waltz over and nuke their opponents while they were still grunting and contemplating fire?

Loved Star Trek Enterprise...

The pointy shoulders tell me he's a Romulan.

That blue angel Quantum leaping and righting wrongs